Community Briefs: Arboretum opens Discovery Camp

Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 8:16 a.m.

Last Modified: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 8:16 a.m.

Registration is open for the North Carolina Arboretum's 2013 Discovery Camp.

Now in its eighth year, the camp program offers experiences for every age, from pre-kindergarten through high school students, with opportunities for high-schoolers as counselors in training.

Focusing on the philosophy that every child deserves the opportunity to enjoy and explore the natural world, camps use the 434-acre arboretum property as an outdoor classroom to cultivate a sense of adventure and wonder in the outdoors and promote environmental stewardship and conservation.

Scholarships are available to campers whose families meet eligibility criteria. Call 828-665-2492 or visit www.ncarboretum.org for more information.

Students can learn art of playwriting

Flat Rock Playhouse's YouTheatre will host a playwriting workshop for middle and high school students from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Playhouse Downtown, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville.

The workshop, "Fast-Pace Playmaking: Unloosing Ideas Waiting to Get Free," will feature I.B. Hopkins, a freshman English/theater major at the University of Georgia.

Hopkins, a native of Gainesville, Ga., has been recognized for his dramatic writing by Horizon Theatre in Atlanta, the International Thespian Society and Young Playwrights Inc.

His plays and musicals — including "The Goatman Cometh" and "South of Someplace," both anthologized by Samuel French Inc. — generally focus on issues facing 21st-century Southerners.

Students who attend can apply what they learn in the Voice of Tomorrow Playwriting Contest.

Reservations are required.

Call 828-693-3517 or email yt@flatrock playhouse.org for more information.

<p>Arboretum opens Discovery Camp</p><p>Registration is open for the North Carolina Arboretum's 2013 Discovery Camp. </p><p>Now in its eighth year, the camp program offers experiences for every age, from pre-kindergarten through high school students, with opportunities for high-schoolers as counselors in training.</p><p>Focusing on the philosophy that every child deserves the opportunity to enjoy and explore the natural world, camps use the 434-acre arboretum property as an outdoor classroom to cultivate a sense of adventure and wonder in the outdoors and promote environmental stewardship and conservation. </p><p>Scholarships are available to campers whose families meet eligibility criteria. Call 828-665-2492 or visit www.ncarboretum.org for more information. </p><p>Students can learn art of playwriting</p><p>Flat Rock Playhouse's YouTheatre will host a playwriting workshop for middle and high school students from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Playhouse Downtown, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville. </p><p>The workshop, "Fast-Pace Playmaking: Unloosing Ideas Waiting to Get Free," will feature I.B. Hopkins, a freshman English/theater major at the University of Georgia. </p><p>Hopkins, a native of Gainesville, Ga., has been recognized for his dramatic writing by Horizon Theatre in Atlanta, the International Thespian Society and Young Playwrights Inc. </p><p>His plays and musicals — including "The Goatman Cometh" and "South of Someplace," both anthologized by Samuel French Inc. — generally focus on issues facing 21st-century Southerners.</p><p>Students who attend can apply what they learn in the Voice of Tomorrow Playwriting Contest. </p><p>Reservations are required. </p><p>Call 828-693-3517 or email yt@flatrock playhouse.org for more information.</p><p>Compiled from staff reports</p>